On 1/30/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> One item that I wanted to point out is that Sourceforge is considering
> the end-of-life of the CVS service. There's no timeline given, but this
> does affect maxima since maxima is currently using CVS. I suppose we
> should consider moving to another version control system sometime soon.
> (Other than the occasional downtime, I've been quite happy with CVS even
> if it is old and crusty. I don't really want to learn yet another
> system, but it seems we might be forced to.)
Well, there have been suggestions to use some other system --
I think git and maybe subversion have been mentioned.
I don't care too much one way or another.
I guess at this point I wouldn't mind switching to git.
best
Robert Dodier
PS. I seem to recall that someone was pulling the CVS repo
via rsync every now and then -- is that still happening?
I am thinking that it would be nice to recover the repo if SF
grinds to a halt at some point ....